Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel by John & Hank Green over original topics in World History, English Literature, Biology, & Ecology, & with new added videos over American History & Chemistry. Their videos are fast pace, lasting about 10-12 minutes. The videos are entertaining overviews that may require you to pause the videos to discuss with your students, or perhaps use a backchannel site like todaysmeet.com. The videos are aimed towards a high school audience, but may work for the upper middle school years.
Videos from television show, Curiosity relates scientific discoveries to everyday life. Each video includes question videos from scientist that would make a great classroom discussion topics.
Easy, fun science experiments for inquisitive minds of any age! Close to two hundred videos, most under two minutes, featuring close-up images of the experiment in action with only a soundtrack as backdrop. These are great teasers that set up and perform the experiment first and then pose the question of why/how, referring viewers to the Steve Spangler Science site to delve into the science behind the fun.
Information Literacy Skills: these videos would be a great to have students mimic in creating their own 2-min “science-in-action” experiment videos; storyboarding the experiment, planning and executing the shoot, and editing. This could be a great project to implement with high school students partnered with elementary or middle school students.
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Crash Course!
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel by John & Hank Green over original topics in World History, English Literature, Biology, & Ecology, & with new added videos over American History & Chemistry. Their videos are fast pace, lasting about 10-12 minutes. The videos are entertaining overviews that may require you to pause the videos to discuss with your students, or perhaps use a backchannel site like todaysmeet.com. The videos are aimed towards a high school audience, but may work for the upper middle school years.
Curiosity
Discovery ChannelVideos from television show, Curiosity relates scientific discoveries to everyday life. Each video includes question videos from scientist that would make a great classroom discussion topics.
Explore
Students can watch & learn about wildlife & the world. With live cams & lesson plans.
MinutePhysics
A YouTube channel that provides short physics lessons using animations to explain a topic.
SciShow
Hank Green from Crash Course!, sparks students’ curiosity with videos over a variety of science topics.
Sick Science!
Easy, fun science experiments for inquisitive minds of any age! Close to two hundred videos, most under two minutes, featuring close-up images of the experiment in action with only a soundtrack as backdrop. These are great teasers that set up and perform the experiment first and then pose the question of why/how, referring viewers to the Steve Spangler Science site to delve into the science behind the fun.
Information Literacy Skills: these videos would be a great to have students mimic in creating their own 2-min “science-in-action” experiment videos; storyboarding the experiment, planning and executing the shoot, and editing. This could be a great project to implement with high school students partnered with elementary or middle school students.
Last Updated - February 2014